Hans Pfitzner News Today

A review of Alma Mahler, muse to genius, by Karen Monson.

Given that he was excoriated by Joseph Goebbels as an 'atonal musician' whose work debased German womanhood, it is hardly surprising the noted composer and violinist found the general artistic climate in the Third Reich increasingly uncongenial. While his talents were greatly appreciated during the resulting sojourn in Turkey, where he was Kemal Atatürk's chosen instrument to modernise Turkish music, his was hardly an uneventful life

There is a touching documentary about Otto Klemperer, that steadfast titan of conducting who died 50 years ago, by filmmaker Philo Bregstein. Watch it

The Sixth is the outlier among Beethoven’s symphonies, rural and rustic where the others are driven and dramatic. Richard Osborne makes a selection of the best versions from a rich recorded history

Adam Kirsch on Hans Pfitzner & the conservative artist.

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The Austrian city of Linz said on Thursday it planned to rename a street honouring the founder of the luxury carmaker Porsche after a commission probi...

A commission probing controversial names deemed the Porsche founders Nazi past to be problematic. The Porscheweg and three other streets are to be renamed in Austrias Linz.